The question serious leaders face is whether principles have any place in a world that rewards raw power and speed.

But modern corporations aren’t principalities ruled by autocrats. They are, in fact, more like republics, their leaders dependent on the support of directors, employees, customers, investors, and one ...

Niccolò Machiavelli offered a famously dim view of human nature in The Prince. People are so “ungrateful, fickle, [and] false,” he wrote, that a ruler should comfortably abandon conventional morality ...

As art history lovers flock to the Louvre in Paris to see the blockbuster show celebrating the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo da Vinci, a new painting by his hand may have been discovered ...

Clues concerning Machiavelli’s thinking as to his own immediate personal path lie in one of the Italian Renaissance’s most beautiful—and in some ways most deceiving—letters, which he wrote to his ...

Niccolo Machiavelli isn’t generally the first name to leap to mind in a discussion of feminist icons, but according to a new book, he probably should be. “Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, ...

The term “Orwellian” has always struck me as curiously Orwellian – a mild example of doublespeak that ties an author’s good name to the dystopia he so memorably depicted. (See also “Dickensian” and ...

Despite the barriers women have broken in recent decades, equality in the workforce has not arrived. The U.S. gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000, female CEOs remain rare and the ...

“A Prince who is not wise himself cannot be well advised by others.” “I do not believe that divisions purposely caused can ever lead to good.” No, these are not the sayings of Buddha. They are ...